People outside Mumbai must be wondering about typical common man (Referred to ‘Middle Class’ man) job life and lifestyle in Mumbai, So thought to give a glimpse of same. It will help you understand how a middle class life struggler with a job spends week days and how is his weekend life in this commercial capital city called Mumbai..This article may not cherish you as its is focused on the facts of the life of those new comers to job world coming to Mumbai from outside / within city. Just a trial and feeling of real life example of a typical middle class friend with high dreams catches up a job and gets trapped in fast routine life. Enjoy the article and hope that gives some real life inside of Mumbai city.
Mumbai Lifeline
Must have heard this word, Lifeline in newspaper or Online on Mumbai related blogs, yes it all about the local trains that carries Millions of people daily to their job from far distances. Maximum people in the mass class or say ‘Middle Class’ travels daily through Mumbai Local Trains, Middle class life in Mumbai don’t give option for every individual to have his personal vehicle to travel daily for job, A typical daily traveler spends anything from 2 to 6 hours daily in this trains just to go and come back from the job, say it central, western or harbour railway route. So this 4 hours daily means 16% time of daily life is spent in this local trains full of crowd for 24 hours, and yes everyone has his own story to talk inside the coach.Typical Weekday Life
So here you reach to your job or business through local trains or if lucky enough in you own car, Ok wait a minute, own car or company car or loan car ? so if you ask how is your road experience during drive and here he starts, ‘Saala ye traffic kab kum hoga’ which means when will this traffic going to be less, which shows still the commercial capital travel life is not so good. Fighting through traffic, adjusting through pot holes in monsoon and listening to your favorite music or radio station that announces the petrol hike in Mumbai with those bollywood music, is what a typical day life starts with. Of course the extra negative dose of newspapers and new channels can’t be missed.Wonder how Mumbai people spend their time on Job ? Here is a short story line on lets say a IT person spending his time (12 hours of daily life) at office. Warming up with a cup of coffee at about 10 – 10:30 am with minimum time taken may be some 15 to 20 minutes, he start with Emails, If a lucky guy that has internet access wide open then life rocks with some facebook comments, videos and Tweets. Then by 12 Noon a casual meeting, sometimes with not so great agenda, just that your boss should know that you are working on something. Oops how fast this clock speeds, its quite obvious that after such crowded massage in local train and traffic fight on road, the hunger needs attention. No less then 1 hour eating with some bonus minutes on smoking makes you feel little good. But hey whats that you thinking continuously full day ?? Is it about your identity and life in Mumbai, Or a Home Loan EMI, Car loan might be, Or about saving some funds for children admission and education ? Wait we forgot something….. What ..What ?
Your Love Life ? Come on man, In Mumbai city now a days who thinks more on love life once into this ‘RAT RACE’ chasing money, job security, loans etc. Although their is love inside every life that beats in Mumbai, Money is a priority. Without owning a home, No one is ready to marry you and hey let me know first how much you earn monthly before i marry you. Is love life in Mumbai a monopoly with college students ? May be, but somewhere this is the fact.
Hey, whats the time now ?? Its 5:30 PM, and hey i have still lots of work pending, still need to send some reports, some coding work….Uff how can i come out of this rat race is what he thinks and hey where is life leading with this running clock ? Come on, ‘TOMORROW’ is the perfect day, ill make some difference in my life ‘TOMORROW’, But for now need to decide which local train / bus will be best with less crowd to catch, Need to reach home.
Its 8:00 PM at home and hey life is good with a cup of hot tea, YES i stay in MUMBAI, the so called commercial capital with less commercial capital lying in my bank account. And here comes a voice ‘Kya karega, Kaam to karna hi padega na…’ (which means ‘What can we do, We need to work to pay bills’). And hey here comes the week end.
Middle Class Job Life in Call Centers
So what if i don’t have a white collar job, ‘i can adjust’ with this shifts giving support in call center jobs, Its a trend now a days. There is lifestyle, good and fast money. Yes i do think of my future life, how long will i continue this way. I need to get settled, Get my own home and this financial institutes don’t trust we call center workers easily for a loan. Forget it for now, Lets think about all this ‘Tomorrow’ or may be in weekends.. Lets have a cutting chai, smoke a little and back to work, its night shift this week, So what if we work when world sleeps. This is Mumbai and a middle class need to struggle a little first. I will manage to live with friends sharing a rental apartment and enjoy weekends with my other friends.Thought of a person is all it matters, there are hard working chaiwalas who managed to hold some good positions in city and made life better and there are those who has no delay gratifications and wants to enjoy it all now. Mumbai welcomes all.
Week End Job Life
No tension, This lucky two days is just for me, Some are lucky with just sundays and not saturdays. So how life treats a middle class Mumbaikar in week end, Lets have a look. So what are the plans ? Movie, an overnight Picnic or chilling out in Discos and pubs or a casual drinking party at friends home. For girls, life in weekend may be similar but might be also some pending home work, beauty parlor or being online and on phone having fun. Hey what about married person ? He needs to keep the family happy so take them to weekend gateway or much tired to just get out of home…Hahaha.. That’s life when the cost of living is higher then the income and one is never satisfied with current life. Anyways, life needs to move and hey where the hell the weekend gone, so fast and what next… ‘MONDAY’….i know this word pinches, same routine bus, auto, local trains and same ‘lovely’ boss.Now this was just how is the life of a busy job going middle class person, But hey Mumbai’s life is not so limited, If you have enough money to spend you can enjoy every luxury, say it spending a day or the beautiful nightlife.
How Middle Class Job Worker Feels on Monday
Facebook wall pops up with those Monday Blues messages, Don’t feel like waking up and going to work. But as soon as we remember our boss face, we are ready and all tiredness is gone. Getting late, no time for breakfast as you might miss that local train (The beautiful Coach, The lifetime achievement ‘window seat’) and that regular group who are my train friends who share equal thoughts. Yeah, we are birds with the feather, So rush….yes i have a job in Mumbai now..One complete week went and here is the same old Monday, the only difference and new thing that happened this week in my life is that i lost more 168 hours (7 x 24) of my life, ignoring the pain as a struggler and here i am with same questions and some more responsibilities given by boss and my own life ignoring the beautiful green nature, the little smile of that small kid, spending less time with beloved, thinking on best ways to climb those corporate ladders, putting up the best machine ‘Brain’ to work on how to fight that office politics and be the best face in office so i will be promoted as Manager / CEO / Head of Mumbai.
Life Flashes Back in Mumbai
And one day, The mind of this Middle class friend asks few questions, while got a time to seat alone for few minutes.- So what was your dream during your college days in Mumbai ?
- How was your life treating even with less pocket money ?
- Did you had same political buddies like this corporate life of Mumbai ?
- Did you ever thought of getting trapped into this RAT RACE you currently running ?
- Will more money solve all problems ?
- Can you buy those 168 hours of you lost week again to spend some time with nature or your beloved ?
- Is following you own passion better then this life ? Doing what you love and earn bread butter from it even if it is little less initially ?
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